| 1 | elbows knees ankles wrists the space program needs me |
| 2 | bluebells daisies daffodils i was eaten by a bear later made into a rug |
| 3 | watching the rug's owner was like watching tv later, i climbed out of the bear began to sing |
| 4 | O i sang and my mouth was an O actually it was the wind that was making the sound blowing past my mouth as if it were an open cave and in the mouth of the cave there was a bear the bear turned to his brother bear lying on a rock at the back of the cave, said one day some of us bears will go up to that round glinting thing as if we were salmon going upstream our brains illuminated with one thought only we'll probably become weightless hairless snatching at it as if it were indeed a fish |
| 5 | what'd we do if we got it? the brother bear said but before there was time for an answer i drew a little diagram in the sand on the cave's floor the cave that was really my mouth did i draw the diagram with my tongue? |
| 6 | maybe |
| 7 | did the particles of sand know that they'd formed part of a large diagram there in the wet red cave past the mouth of which the wind blew sounding as if it were me singing having emerged from under the skin of the bear that had eaten me and that had subsequently been made into a rug? |
| 8 | i don't think so |
| 9 | life, then, is a naked chair talking to another naked chair at the back of a cave
did i say chair?
send this to the space program at once |
